Games Inbox: The end of zombies in video games, Knights Of The Old Republic reboot, and Stray oddity
The Thursday letters page considers the hidden costs of Xbox Game Pass, as one reader imagines The Elder Scrolls TV show.
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The perfect enemy That news about Dead Island 2 made me realise two things 1) I don’t care about Dead Island 2 anymore and 2) zombies have finally started to die out as the must-have video game villain. It took long enough, they were massive for well over a decade, but I feel that they’ve finally fallen out of fashion. Sure, there are still some games being made with them but it’s no longer the epidemic it used to be, where every second game had ‘Dead’ in the name.
It’s obvious why zombies were popular for so long. Not only were they riding the wave of general popularity in movies and TV, but the one thing video games always need is a human-like enemy that you can kill by the dozen and not feel bad about. For years it was Nazis and then when people got tired of that it was zombies, and now we’ll need something else. Aliens again, maybe?
You see this need for cannon fodder in a lot of games and it’s why something like Avengers didn’t work, because fighting mindless robots that never talk is no fun. At least zombies are scary or intelligent enemies can talk to you. We want to be shooting real people but just not so real that we feel guilty about it.Chas
Fantasy show I wonder if the Fallout TV series is a success whether that would then lead to one based on The Elder Scrolls? I know a lot of people would say its fantasy world is too generic but I’ve always thought that was a bit unfair. Maybe cool it on the dragons a bit, because that is in danger of being overdone a bit, but things like the lizard and cat people are not something you see
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